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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:22:35 +0000
Subject: Re: Patches for device names
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Greg KH wrote:
> 
> So the kernel should cache this information?  That's a mess, why do that
> when userspace already has this mapping (udevinfo provides it).  We
> already have a mapping from device major/minor already in sysfs as well.
> 
> So why would the kernel need to care about this?
> 

Fair enough.

Now, calling udevinfo is quite expensive; is this information available 
through a programmatic API?

	-hpa